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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

3 men beaten and stripped naked in Imo State for allegedly being gay

The three men above were stripped naked and allegedly beaten on Monday January 14th, in Ekwe, near Umuka in Njaba Local Government Area of
Imo State for supposedly being homosexuals.

A group, the
Nigeria HIV Info, dedicated to the protection of the rights of people living
with HIV/AIDS, sent out a statement alerting people about the incident and condemning the act.

In the statement signed by the group's cordinator, Steve Aborisade, the group said it has “reliably confirmed and authenticated
the incident and of the identity of one of the men.”

Mr. Aborisade called on security
agents to respond to the plight of the men.

“As it is, only the perpetrators and
the community can tell the whole world what has become of these men who were
seriously beaten up, stripped naked and paraded around the community bounded
together like animals on allegation that they were caught having sex together,”
Mr. Aborisade said.

Mr. Aborisade said a reliable source
“reliably confirmed that the men were yet to be released from the location
where they are being held in Umuka, Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State.”

The group appealed to the Imo State
Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to intervene to save the lives of the men.

“While acknowledging that several
Nigerians find the practice of homosexuality strange and unnatural, we also
realize that it does not confer a license to trample on the rights of people
who engages in it, with the sort of inhuman treatment that was meted out to
these them.

“So many informed commentators,
including Nobel Prize winner, Prof Wole Soyinka have commented on the
scientifically proven fact that more than anything, gays are just victims of
biology,” the group said.

Mr. Aborisade said instead of being
singled out for harassment and prosecution, sexual minorities deserve support
and access to sexual health services that they lack as citizens of this
country.

He said sexual minorities “remain a
high risk group to HIV/AIDS infection, yet it is a community that has been
denied of all access to life saving HIV/AIDS services.”

“We suggest that our parliamentarians
should devote equal energy at fishing out and punishing our treasury thieves
who are doing more harm to the continued survival of our nation instead of
dissipating energy on an issue that borders on private morality.

“We enjoin other rights group to show
solidarity and ensure that the rights of sexual minorities are protected like
other marginalised groups in the country,” Mr. Aborisade said.

The same sin as been homosexual is the same sin as been a thief or a killer! What? We should let everybody exercise their rights based on their instincts? So killers should kill at will and robbers should steal? They have a right to claim human rights too. Let's stop fooling ourselves and stop dis silly talks. If thieves are trated this way, why can't gays be treated like dis? Victims of abuse and not biology! Simple.

This is inhuman. Why not hand them over to the relevant authorities even tho they committed a crime? We never learn at all. See their faces sef. Psweeeeee!Linda i have found a lady that looks exactly like you o. See her pic on GISTville

Cossy needs to even read this Tiwa Savage's 10 commandments for women HERE

I am in NO support of homosexuality but such an act like this is just crude! Is this how a modern society should act? This is the 21st century pls.... If Europeans call us "Monkeys" now we go won go mad and all. Things shouldn't be done this way.

Are Nigerians not tired of jungle justice? As much as I abhor homosexualtiy these men do not deserve this! They didn't harm anybody did they? Foolish lots ur representatives busy stealing ur money in abuja are given red carpet receptions when they come home but u can lynch and mob innocent people mtscheew

How barbaric. The poor boy on the left looks so young. I agree because you don't like something does not give us the right to hate people who do, no matter how wrong we think it is. This is mostly a problem for straight men! Feel so sorry for them. PS: am not gay o!

Its quite unfortunate we live in a mechanical type of society,where people act before they think,sporadic mob action is never a good means of correction or discipline. Coz two wrongs cannever make a right.Am not an advocate of gay ish,but such treatment to a great extent is inhuman and shows how backward we still are.There are more important issues requiring our sporadic actions like corruption in our country,but we tend to exhibit our masochistic tendencies out of place when it comes to helpless individuals like us.Before u get me wrong am as straight as a strip pole, but dat doesn't make me a beta person dan a gay.He without sin should cast d first stone.

I think everybody has right over their own decision, once they are adults, they ve rights to make their own Decision without anybody giving them Orders. That's the path,they think its the best for them, I'm nt in support of Homosexuality or Lesbianism, there ll b a day definitely dt they ll realize these SHAMELESS ACT & ask for FORGIVENESS from GOD & PEOPLE, We can't correct them by beating or Arresting, they need our prayers, people pls let's join hands together to STOP, these Acts. Thank u. Mama B

I dont dislike gays buh I definitely hate their lifestyles and treating these three in such a barbaric way wil not stop dem(if dey were not unjustly killed ni o) or odas from continue dis unnatural act. To me,the whole tin may even b counter productive on d community,as they (d 3 men) wil get a sympathetic supports from d outside world and dis wil definitely aid dia course. And d community?surely na condemnation dem go eventually get.

Welcome to Nigeria! A land full of hate, wickedness, bitterness and worse of all savages. No love in this land. I aint condoning their act. But this pic right here makes me remember Aluu 4. A land where if you are mistaken for a thieve, you'll be killed without being tried.

Wat de fuck for? Whose life is it? De men or de bastards beatin dem? Smmmmmmh i hate shits like dis, every1 is entitled to his/her own life style joor.... Most of de beaters mite be thivies, kidnappers, rapists, people fuckin oda mens' wives & so many bad tins yet no1 has neither beaten nor strip dem naked. #God4giveUs.

When are going to stop our jusgulistic approach to issues like this.....I do not support that gay shit....but if pple feel its ok for em.....that's their problem....cos I look @ the mob nd I see a bunch of people who have stolen, slept with lots of women, defrauded people, killed people, told lies....etc....nd probably done worse evils....I don't know why its just in Nigeria where HE IS WITH WORSE SINS IS FIRST TO CAST A STONE....let's stop this hypocrisy

i can't help but laugh. it is insensitive but keep your private lives private if u dont want this. this won't happen in V.I, Ikoyi, where most of nigerian homos reside, go and try this in another state or in ajegunle, you are committing suicide.

Ain't you a moron for that comment you must be a faggot if them born you well , you for show for the place begin talk this English , oloriburuku oolodo oshi. You wey dem suppose to don abort in pregnancy .

They were fortunate not 2 have been beaten 2 death. I do not commend taking justice into our hands!but the act is abominable and offensive in privacy late alone at d glare of ppl! It is sick 2 think of such act occuring in d rural areas! This case should be properly treated.

Fuck nigeria..fuck the goverment y most of their kids r junkies in my state u pple don't hear that,u only see the house etc dey r in so much pains...bastard..y I won the lotto nd still never brought my money to nigeria..if u like post if u like don't.

MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, TAKE MY ADVICE IT PAYS TO BE GAY IN NIGERIA WITH THIS SORT OF PICTURES AND VIDEOS YOUR AMERICAN RESIDENCY IS GUARANTEED, JUST FIND A GOOD LAWYER U CAN EVEN PRETEND TO BE GAY. HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE SEE U IN YANKEE.

the fact that you don't like them does not make them less than human beings. these people have rights. if they did anything contrary to the law, last i checked, there are still courts and lawyers in Nigeria.

Beaten??? not for stealing but for having a private moment and doing their private buisness? na waofor that country. Are there no laws in Nigeria anymore? what is it with beating and stripping people naked in Nigeria for the slightest thing?

Nobody has the right to subject their fellow human such inhumane treatment. This Jungle justice mentality has to stop! All community leaders have to be called upon to call to order their youths. Some of the people jeering behind am so sure indulge in worse acts like ritual killings and armed robbery but are pictured above in a somewhat rigtheous anger towards them. This has got to stop!. stridgent measures should be taken against anyone who indulges in such acts of barbarism! We are nt monkeys in the jungle. What a shame, and how the international community must be on their toes now make more out of this incident.

Well...as much as I detest homosexuality I also hate d fact dat some group of people will gang up n b judge n jury over any case.....being Gay is SIN quite alright but it doesn't rank higher than stealing or adultery which I believe many of d "Judge & Jury" are guilty of. Remember...God is watching us in 5D oooo. Judgement day no go easy ooo....he dat has ear let him hear.

Nigerian society is so primitive, I swear. This is no different from what happened at Aluu. I can already imagine comments from people justifying this. We expect to be tolerated while we don't practice tolerance. Damn fools these Nigerians, LOL.

The reason why people still carry out this humiliating act melted on their fellow human beings is because nothing has been done in the past to the chalathans who feel they can violate their fellow human being .... This kind of treatment is very unfair !!!!!!

Jungle justice in this age!Didn't these primitive scallywags from the east learnt from the Allu killings.Homosexualism is an hormonal imballance,it is a sexual disorder in which victims can't help nor fathom.

What do you expect from am homohobic n gay labelling society. It behooves the FG to protect n uphold the rights of sexual minority to privacy n sex with consenting adult. Any thing short this will lead to untold hardship cos anybody can raise false alarm n label u gay n citizen vigilence will ALUU you. After all Oscar Wilde posit that pariotism is the virtue of the vicious. Ceciro- closet gay n sexual minority right advocate.

this\' so appallin. well, I dnt really blame them... had d Nigerian judicial system concluded on d ALUU case, en thence, pass a bill condemng any of such babaric acts, this wouldnt have happnd. Homophobism in Naija shal com 2 an end someday... I\'m as hopeful as Merlin.

Watever sexual minority are victim of biology n creation. All these bible quoting people has ever occured dat God created the gays: for s n g. This same God created people wit leprosy n wat was ther bible recommendation: they should be separated; meaning left to die. Wit hand n limbs affected hw do would they survive. The bible conctract picture of God it presenty. Am a Ph.D holder; manly not effeminate n attracted to man. I kn i was not abuse or mentally sick. If God didt create me gay then who did. Food for tot. Ceciro- closet gay n sexual minority act.

That tell u that if u they live in village u beta come to city if u knw say u av somethg tht u re hiding coz those ones they don't send anybody I can't judge them nd again I against homosexual is totally bad but I think God knows everyone of us nd he's d one that will judge us

The most pathetic n painful aspect of this whole thing,is dat more dan half of the senseless animals parading these men are homosexuals.majority of the homophobic men re men who re scared of their own sexual inhibitions,they think openly condemning n disapproving of the act wud make dem feel less gay.its ironic n a pity.

This is total rubbish. For how long will Nigerians grow up and stop harassing people? This is really bad NΩ̴̩̩̩̥ matter what. I think everyone is entitle too what he or she wants. Linda post •̸Ϟγ̲̣̣̥ comment Ooº°˚ ˚°ºo.

The government should be the one in charge not some group of illiterate villagers. they dont have the right to treat them like this. its à free world. only God bas the right to judge and condemn. people just like to carry uneccessary work on their head.

Gayism should be discouraged,thanks to d lawmakers its a crime in nigeria,if u see where dis guys abuse and rape young boys and introduce them to dis unholy act then u will also c dem in anoda light#but dia is no justification for dis act it portrays nigeria as barbaric and lawless,takin law into our hands is never an option

Even though I don't support gay practices, it is totally wrong for a group to act in such a babaric way. It is time the govt start reacting seriously to mob actions before we have another ALUU case on our hands.

Most Nigeria are a people prouder in taking goose steps behind hypocrisy, we are quick in lynching homosexuals, and but never for corrupt politicians. Hypocrisy from Nigerians stinks to the highest heavens. When I was in College, football unites Nigerians, since the craze about EPL, now it is homosexuality. What a wickeder people.

i think sex has to do with an individual choice,am yet to see any Holy book that has conderm sex or spelt out that sex must be male and female.It's an individual thing,what ever sex mate one chooses provided u are satisfied with ur choice.I am a married woman and i prefer it that way.Am not in support of the act but we should not infringe on Human right.

Insane Nigerians.. Is it their fucking biz??? If I want to sleep with a dog, whoes biz is it. If its me and I manage to survive this humuliation and I manage to spot any if these guys that did this I will KILL the bastard....

I have said it before. As long as we continue to victimize minorities in this country, we deserve all the victimization from the west. Continue o nigeria, continue with your backwardness and stupidity. The world has moved forward and you insist on staying behind, yet all of you will be praying to God to give you visa to the so called corrupt west. Hypocrites!!!

Homosexuality is an abomination before God and man. However, i would quote the Lord Jesus when the woman was caught in adultery "let he who has no sin be the first to throw a stone". I personally think that homosexuals need help, not hate.

People always look for someone or something to blame thier predicaments on and the Nigeria Government (by stigmatizing people based on thier sexual orientation) has provided the fustrated masses with a new scapegoat.

So people, from now on;

If you dont have electric power in your area, blame the gays for disrupting PHCN with thier gayness!

If you dont have good roads and Drainage, balme the gays. They have spoilt the roads with too much gay action!

If you get robbed by armed robbers or kidnapped....somehow, the gays must be blamed for that too!

First to protect it, then to accept it and then to promote it. NEVER! what is done in secret will surely come to light one day for both master and servant alike. Shameless....Men? They need to reject such foul jezebel spirits (it's not a lifestyle) and be delivered unto the Lord with an open heart and mind for re-cleansing. Parading them only promotes shame, not really repentance.

I disagree with the Nigeria HIV info and Prof Wole Soyinka.GOD never created a man for a man. This was exactly what was happening in Sodom and Gomorrah before GOD set them ablaze. I am not saying they should set them ablaze, but there is more that meets the eye the moment a man climbs another man for sex. These homo guys from America, Turkey, South Africa etc has infiltrated into our country. Some ignorant young men associate with them all for money.Finally, homosexuality does not fall from the moon, it started somewhere. Now lets see how it starts.

But beating and humiliating, then stripping and parading a man because of his lifestyle will never cut it for me. Cutting pepper and rubbing it into orifices that hardly see light nko? Nooo. What of arranging them and lay their d**ks on a slaughter chamber for decapitation nko? Ahhhhhh, abeg o. Ok one more, what of stripping and giving their d**ks 12 strokes of the cane? Na wa, what kain mind be this?

In anycase, no one deserves this treatment. Even the criminal connotation to it of sending them to jail, as far as am concerned is not necessary. Efforts must be made to reach such men with God's truth to transform them. Gbam!

This is a horrible situation. Are we barbarians? What right had the community to treat those men in such an inhuman way. I hope scapegoats are found in the community. People are so self-righteous. What are we doing about the stealing that keeps our country where it is? Young people grow up knowing that if you steal hundred naira, you could be beaten to death but if you steal hundred million naira, you are honoured with titles and what not. To be gay is a biological given, just like being an albino, being left-handed, being dark or being fair. It's sheer ignorance and stupidity to persecute people for being gay. Even Professor Soyinka, one of Africa's greats, has called for an end to this sort of persecution. If influential people think this sort of evil will not affect them, they are mistaken. They'll find some of their children, friends siblings are closeted gays and could be beaten to death soon.

Nigeria sha!!!!! Aproko is part of what is killing the country. What is your own? What is anybody's business ni? That's one thing living abroad has taught me. I'm not supporting same sex things but what is anybody's own? Instead of working out your own salvation with fear and trembling you are drinking another person's garri. How is your life better or moving forward???Nigerians own mind your business and stop judging.

Good for them for acting against the order of nature.Thank God they weren't barbecued. Animals are saner these days. Havv you ever sewn a male dog,goat,lizard,pigeon etc mating with a fellow male?Faggots need help. Encourage them to come out. Thwy need a rehab.

All hole na hole... Its a set of ugly barbarians that would do a thing like this... My thought: If a gay moda fucker walks up to a guy, the guy simply says no... he could throw a punch or two for insulting him by asking but not this... Each of the fools that have engaged in lynching them... Who told them it was not a sin to fuck women??? I just think that the same way a man fucks women without cause or reason... everyone else should be open to their own beliefs. Period!!!

U ARE really DAFT!!! So thieves, armed robbers and murders have human rights? Where did u read that. They are stealing from u, raping or molesting young girls, killing our students and u say there's no difference to a bunch of men nacking themselves? U r truly deluded.

U ARE really DAFT!!! So thieves, armed robbers and murders have human rights? Where did u read that. They are stealing from u, raping or molesting young girls, killing our students and u say there's no difference to a bunch of men nacking themselves? U r truly deluded.

U ARE really DAFT!!! So thieves, armed robbers and murders have human rights? Where did u read that. They are stealing from u, raping or molesting young girls, killing our students and u say there's no difference to a bunch of men nacking themselves? U r truly deluded.

Look and listen closely....those who indulge and carry out jungle justice are those youths and men who attach little or no value to their lives. Of course without value for their own lives how can they attach value to other human lives. They are rogues,thieves,illitrates, traditional and babaric minded sets of people. I strongly solicite for community development group programmers to please rise up and begin to go into the corners of our dear nation and educate and enlighten our youths about the value of one individual life and the dangers n evils of jungle justice. Linda please seek out community development groups before we also begin to find reasons to identify with this evil.

Iam not gay and infact I don't like ther act I rili condemn it. But sin is sin isn't it? What's the diff between fornication and this, they are sin against God and our bodies isn't it. Pple should have done the proper thing, stripping them is outta d question

I am sure these men where being monitored before they were mobbed, but maybe that's d reason they were treated this way.Homosexuality is nt african,its a shame.Mayb that d why they were treated shamefully.Whatever, abeg..

I HATE THIS COUNTRY!!!! I DETEST THE PEOPLE IN IT!! ALL THOSE PEOPLE COMMENDING THE MOB MAY GOD GIVE YOUR CHILD A CONDITION THAT IS PREJUDICED AND MAY YOU FEEL THE PAIN WHEN THEY ARE CHASTISE THEM!!! MAYBE THAT WILL HUMBLE YOU TO NOT CONDEM SINNERS!!! WAT THE FREAKING HELL?!!! IMAGINEEEEE!!! SUCH NONSENSE!! THIS IS HOW ALU4 WERE KILLED! INNOCENT BOYS O!!! WHATS TO SAY THESE MEN WERE NOT INNOCENT!! EVEN IF THEY WERE GUILTY?? SO ITS HOMOSEXUALITY THAT IS MAKING DEM PARADE HUMANS NAKED AND BEATEN UP???? HABAAAAAHHH LINDAAA..U SEF SPEAK OUT AGAINST THIS NOW??! WHAT ARE OUR FREAKING COWARDLY EADERS ON ABOUT SEF??! ARE MOST OF DEM NOT GAY? OR HAVE GAY CHILDREN??!! WHAT IS DIS RUBBOSH???..HAVE THEY LYNCHED AND STRIPPED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO SLEEP WITH UNDERAGED GILS, STEAL OUR MONEY, KILL FOR RITUALS, KILL TO TAKE POSITIONS? WHO RAPE? WHO ABUSE?? WOOOOOOW!!! I HATE THIS COUNTRY ...HOW WISH GOD MADE ME A CITIZEN OF ANOTHER CONTNENT!!!! AFRICA WILL IMPLODE IF THEY CONTINUE LIKE THIS!! FREAKING MISPLACED PRIOROTIES!!! NIGERIA..ONLY GOOD AT GETTING WORSE!!! NEVER GOOD AT GOOD...MAY GOD CHANGE THINGSSS!! LOOK AT THAT MOB!! FILLED WITH HYPOCRITES!! I AM SO ANGRY

Whether these men are truly gay or just victims of lies and hate, they don't deserve to be stripped and beaten. As for all the holier than thou commentators, some of whom are fornicators, liars, theives 'including yahoo yahoo', adulterer's infact the list is endless...all sins are sins before God and you who is feeling holier than thou and the 'gay' individual are the same without Jesus..he who is free of sin should cast the first stone...PS-I am a straight woman

Linda is it possible to take off the anonymous option for commenting and also make commenting with one's name less complicated. A lot of LIBers hide under the guise of being anonymous to write rubbish in the name of comments. I don't support homosexuality but treating a fellow human being like an animal makes you worse than the homosexual.@ Anonymous face burner with hot iron, people like you usually are rapist.

Tempi u are the daft one. He has a point. If homosexuality is a crime and you people say its their human right, why won't an armed robber claim he gets the urge to ro people and should be allowed to do as he pleases? No matter how liberal we want to be, a society needs moral. Homosexuality was one of the main reasons sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. Why will people never learn from the past? It is a crime in Nigeria and I am happy they managed to pass that law. Tomorrow, some people will claim sleeping with animals is their right. And to think these so called liberals are Christians and yet have never come across where God said any man that lies with another man should be killed is just sad. Christians when it comes to promises of riches but not obeying Gods laws. Of course we should not kill but the least Christians should do is acknowledge God is against it as the bible tells us so and abhor it.

See the bloodthirsy look on the face of that hopeless bastard in the red tshirt. Stuupid people that won't ask their governor what the office of SA on Lagos affairs does! Is it not knack he's knacking her and settling her with their money? See pple that dunno where their problems lie oh. Parading pple naked for knacking. Ok now. He who is without sin...